Effects of Medication on Performance

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Medication to Lose

•The oldest form of illegal medication

•In principle, always possible to medicate a horse so that it will lose

•Challenge is to treat a horse such that he goes to post but does not win his race

•More likely where there is heavy ante-post betting

•Also possible to medicate a horse to lose so that a favored horse will win

•Always illegal, and usually considered an “outside” job